Judo instruction is one of the high spots in the life of the latest addition to the Leatherneck Marines here. An instructor shows a recruit how to make the enemy's bayonet useless. Corporal Arvin Lou Ghazlo, USMC, giving judo instruction to Private...

Homeward Bound (no. 3 of three pictures) : The holds of a Liberty ship, homeward bound, are crowded with happy GIs. The Army allows 30% more passengers than normal to expedite the return of troops from overseas. 7/24/45

Marshall, pilot in a Negro Fighter Group of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, had his plane shot up by flak during a strafing mission over Greece before the Allied invasion. When he came down all that was left of the plane was his engine and...

U.S. Troop Convoy to Liberia : A task force of American Army engineers sails for Liberia, a country in West Africa modeled after their own United States ... keeping rifles clean and in perfect order becomes an even more important task on ship...

American troops in Liberia. American Army Engineer task force in Liberia find themselves in a land from which many of their ancestors came ... when the U.S. Army Engineers landed in Liberia they found the natives had already constructed a hut for...

Staff Sergeant Jesse Greene (center) passes on his blood won lessons of the front to negro volunteer reinforcement troops. They are, l. to r., Pfc. Christopher Skurdy, Detroit Michigan, who gave up first sergeant stripes in an engineer service unit...